Beautifully Imperfect – A video on family life

Recently I came across the following public service advertisement by National Family Council of Singapore. It is a moving look at beautiful imperfections that make a relationship perfect. Families are building blocks of a healthy society. Breakdown of families will directly lead to the disintegration of any society. Personally after just a few years of [...]

April 29, 2011 | Posted in Opinion | No Comments »

Top 10 traits of a good programmer

It has been over 12 years since I started professional programming. To this day I am still actively involved in software development. The only difference is that recently I moved into mobile application development platforms such as iPhone, Android and Samsung bada. I am not a computer science graduate and my formal background in computing [...]

October 29, 2010 | Posted in Opinion | 7 Comments »

Teamwork explained

Here is a cartoon which illustrates teamwork. I had received this as an email forward. Clearly a picture is worth 1000 words!

October 27, 2010 | Posted in Opinion | No Comments »

Common myths on medical intervention

Disclaimer : I am not a medical expert. The following are based on my personal experience and knowledge. This  article is NOT medical advise. One of the things I strongly believe is in the superiority of "natural processes". It is only common sense that things that have evolved over millions of years (or designed by [...]

August 15, 2010 | Posted in Opinion | 4 Comments »

Barcamp Kerala 6 – my experience

I have been following Barcamp Kerala from its inception, but never attended it till Barcamp 6. This time I had both motivation and time to attend it and it turned out to be better than what I anticipated. A large and highly enthusiastic group of intelligent youngsters, highly informative sessions from people who are self [...]

October 12, 2009 | Posted in Opinion | No Comments »

Book Review – Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Review Summary In "Social Intelligence" Daniel Goleman points out the importance of social connections in the well being of an individual and the society in general. Much of the stuff in book seemed common sense to me, but what makes it interesting is that Goleman backs up the theories by exploring recent advances in neuroscience. [...]

August 28, 2009 | Posted in Opinion | No Comments »